damage on weapons

[toutenglisse]

Question / suggestion.

 

When warbirds are hit for exemple on a wing near a gun, this gun is damaged. But with modern aircraft there is no damage on weapons (except if you loose the part weapons are attached to, for exemple a half wing of a Ka50).

 

Here in this exemple wing is damaged, but Mavs being hit are still operational.

 

[QuiGon]

There's no difference between warbirds and modern aircraft here, but there's a difference between external stores (e.g. bombs, missiles) and internal guns. Internal guns can get dammaged, as they're a part of the aircraft. This doesn't just apply to the warbirds, but also to modern aircraft like the A-10C. External stores on the other hand can not get dammaged as they are not a part of the aircraft and there is no dammage model for stores, neither for warbird stores nor for modern aircraft stores.

[toutenglisse]

Yes you said it better (and I remember I had lost gun on Ka50 once or twice).

 

Question is will damage model be applied to external storage ?

[Harker]

Yes you said it better (and I remember I had lost gun on Ka50 once or twice).

 

Question is will damage model be applied to external storage ?

I don't think so, at least as long as they're attached to the aircraft. They can be destroyed after that (example: JSOWs can be shot down, but won't get damaged if you're hit).

 

I also remember my gun jamming or being otherwise not operational in the A-10C, after heavy damage to the nose.

[AegisFX]

I believe I've experienced this on the F15C gun as well. I have not seen it on the 18C or other FC3 units. That said...I'd hope any work on updated damage modeling would include some basic effects for external weaponry and their racks, like stores that wont drop, duds, and even an armed warhead that detonates after taking a super (un)lucky hit from a gun